But I'd start here first, and check out Devcpp later. From the error message I assume that the path the the compiler is not in $PATH? (which might be gone after you did the first compile with the instructions above).

in 'Support for development environments' uncheck 'Visual 6 and 7' and 'Cygwin' (this only applies if you really don't work with VC or Cygwin, obviously) Leave all other options as they are during installation.

Also make sure you install this in the correct order.

CSMinGWMSYSWin32 Crystalspace Library Point the profile to the correct directory, very importent

I ran into a similar problem in that I assumed (danger - danger) that because I had Dev-Cpp that MSYS would use it. Well it didn't and I have no idea how you would go about binding MSYS to MingW.I simply downloaded MingW and installed it by itself. MSYS found it no problem and generated a shed load of files and everything *seems* to be working ok.